Did she ever get her hair back?
So, after she moved away from that house she hated and started living her life again, did she get her hair back? Did she cover her head for the rest of her life?
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alopecia is rarely cured, she probably covered her head the rest of her life.
Didn't they say that her hair fell out because of stress. Like alopecia brought on by stress? Didn't her hair fall out earlier and then grow back in (the part where she's getting ready for the coming out party). I thought she had eyebrows. I knew a guy growing up with alopecia and he didn't have any eyebrows or lashes.
shareNevermind. I looked it up. Alopecia can be partial hair loss. The guy I knew had complete hair loss and he was born that way. He didn't lose it like she did.
shareI just read an account online that stated she set her own hair on fire at one point but the family all say it was stress that caused the hair loss.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
It's possible that fire was the cause, out of frustration and the reality that she was about to get "stuck in a loop" -- falling out hair causing stress causing hair fallout...
What I can't understand is how she ended up preferring scarves (appearing more like nun's habits) than wigs or hats. I wonder if that was her passive aggressive way of showing her mother she was no longer going to be available to anyone but her.
"What I can't understand is how she ended up preferring scarves (appearing more like nun's habits) than wigs or hats. I wonder if that was her passive aggressive way of showing her mother she was no longer going to be available to anyone but her."
Could she afford wigs and hats? Hats wouldn't have helped anyway, and wigs look fake unless they're of the highest quality. The Beales couldn't afford their own heating bill half the time.
Did you notice how she wore a skirt upside-down in one scene (of the documentary)? People talk about that as a sign of Edie's fashion genius... LOL!!
The reason she did that was she couldn't fit into the skirt the proper way (having eaten too much ice cream), so she flipped it around and wrapped the hem around her waste.
It's called "Having enough money for ice cream but not enough for a new wardrobe"
"Did you notice how she wore a skirt upside-down in one scene (of the documentary)? People talk about that as a sign of Edie's fashion genius... LOL!!
The reason she did that was she couldn't fit into the skirt the proper way (having eaten too much ice cream), so she flipped it around and wrapped the hem around her waste."
jcb,
she wore jackie's old clothes, there was no money for new clothes. she also had some of caroline's old clothes, the three of them didn't wear the same sizes.
little edie made many fashion statements that designers still copy today.
they had very little ice cream at gg, it was a rare treat because they had no freezer. little edie was very creative with the few clothes she had, that creativity had nothing to do with overeating. she had a great body for someone her age.
It was a shame about her hair, but I really liked how she compensated with all the scarves & pins - I didn't think it looked nun-ish at all, but rather glam. And I liked that she used long flowing scarves, instead of short ones.
"Are you going to your grave with unlived lives in your veins?" ~ The Good Girl
little edie made many fashion statements that designers still copy today.
Magnificent fashion style! I like to imagine the designer she might have been if she had stayed in NYC, pursuing her many talents.
she had a great body for someone her age.
I agree, she had a lovely body. This was in the 70's, when women didn't work out or build the muscle we see today. She had a naturally beautiful body, and beautiful legs.
I also think she was quite pretty in the face as well, dynamic smile.
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The partial hair loss you speak of is alopecia areata. There is also alopecia totalis, in which the sufferer loses all of her head hair but still retains the rest of her body hair. And then there is alopecia universalis, in which the sufferer loses all of her hair--the head hair, the eyebrows, the eyelashes, pubic hair--all of the body hair. This was what Edie, Jr. had, which explains why she no longer had any eyebrows and had to paint them on herself for the rest of her life.
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